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Running Head: MONEY CAN’T BUY LOVE BUT IT CAN BUY LIFE
Money can't buy love, but it can buy life
Marian Mohamud
Edina high school
Nov/18th/2015
MONEY CAN’T BUY LOVE BUT IT CAN BUY LIFE
Introduction
hen we think of human trafficking, sexual exploitation comes to mind, right? But in
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recent years another type of human trafficking has come about, the market for body parts; the
illegal sale of organs on the black market.
In the world of body snatchers, not only are the
people buying the organs guilty but the people selling them are too. Most sell their organs to
escape vicious cycles of poverty and to provide for their families. Of the participants who sold
their kidney to beat poverty “74% still were victims of poverty” (Sharma, 2004). According to The
World Organ Development Report the countries participating in illegal organ trade Are most
occurring in low economic status countries such as Nigeria 86%, India 76% and 60% in
Pakistan.
Background of the problem
Organs trafficking can happen in various ways. Victims can be kidnapped and forced to
give an organ; some agree to give their organs because they need financial help, or are tricked
into believing they need an operation and their organ is removed without them knowing it. An
2012
Atlantic
magazine article tells the story of a 23 year old college student who went to India
to sell what he was told was a “dormant kidney” for $1,150. When he realized that he was being
scammed, “he wanted to come back without giving his kidney, so a broker hired two thugs
Indian thugs and basically beat him and forced him to go to the operation room” (Resnick,
2012). With a similar story when 8 year old Gurkiren Kaur was vacationing in India died after
she was her missing some internal organs, “according to her parents who fear she may have ...